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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in online education are making it possible for humans all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions have to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle low motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants need to better comprehend these new open education initiatives. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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